Slide Shows for your blog. This is a FREE platform and easy to embed into blog. An alternative to movies/photos on your blog.

RockYou slideshows an easy way to create unique sideshows that can be embedded into your blog. Here is an example of how I have used it Sharon's blog

Mixbook is an Online book that can be embedded into a blog. It is another great way to share info, tell a story or showcase photos with text. Here is one I made

Blog Counters FREE tool to keep track of how many visitors to your blog.

Cluster Map - To show what country visitors are coming from on your blog.

Feedjit - Live traffic feed - Able to track where your visitors find your blog and when.

Copyright FREE music - Use if you are adding music to any video/movie that you make for your blog.

A clock for your blog - interesting if you having blogging buddies in another country and can have there time and your time on blog

Glogster - Use glogster to create "posters" that can be embedded into any web page - can add pictures, links, video etc


Voicethread
To get a completely free educator account that allows you to make up to 50 VoiceThreads, start from this address: http://voicethread.com/products/k12/educator/
Choose the VT Educator option and complete the steps (the apply button appears to be grayed out but it still works).
Voicethread
Using this tool you can:
  • Create an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos)
  • Make comments about the media in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam).
  • Share a Voicethread with anyone so that they add comments to your Voicethread or are even able to edit the media as a collaborator.
  • Use the Doodle tool to draw on the media as you add a comment to illustrate your point.
  • You can download a VoiceThread as a movie file (but this costs if you don't have an educator account)
  • You can embed your VoiceThread into online spaces.